I loved Saturday morning cartoons when I was growing up as a kid. I always beat mom and dad out of bed on Saturday and ran in to pull the on button on our T.V. I’m not that old, we just had a very old T.V. for a very long time when I was growing up.  We actually had to get out of our seat, walk to the T.V., and turn a knob to change the channel.  Then came our VCR.  It had a remote and it revolutionized our lives!

Well, enough of that. Back to the cartoons. My favorite cartoon of them all was The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show™. There were at least a couple of characters that used the line, “which way did he go George, which way did he go?” They were always talking about Bugs of course.  As a matter of fact, someone was always looking for that rabbit.

They had just witnessed something otherworldly. Jesus had just levitated before their very eyes. Up, up, up He went until He disappeared into a cloud. Had there been a disciple named George, I am quite certain that there would have been a chorus of “which way did He go, George? Which way did He go?” He was there…then, He was gone. The narrative that Luke recorded in Acts 1:11 tells us that they were all “gazing” up at the sky. Well, the KJV says “gazing” while the more modern translations simply says “looking.” I like “gazing” better because it better captures what they were doing. I imagine with their chins resting comfortably on the ground, they could not take their eyes off of the sky in disbelief.

Enter the angels. “Guys, why are you gazing up into the sky?” they said. “Jesus, yes, this very same Jesus, will come again in the same way that you have seen Him go away.” I don’t know about you but in 2017 those are some AWESOME words of hope!

In John 14 Jesus told His disciples that this was going to happen.  He told them that He was going to go away for a little while and prepare a place for them. Good ole Thomas even asked for directions on how to get where He was going and Jesus assured them that He, in fact, was The Way, The Truth, and The Life and that no one would come to see the Father unless they came through Him, the Son. He gave them a promise…”If I go, I will come again.”  Now, we know He went, so, it stands to reason that if He went as He said He would, why should we doubt that He will return as He said He would.

Sometimes its easy to look at our life situation and say to one another, “which way did He go, George, which way did He go?” Because in those moments, He feels like He is gone and is nowhere to be found. He promised that when He left, He’d send a comforter in the person of the Holy Spirit.  Well the comforter has come and I pray that He will comfort your heart today and remind you to keep looking up because, “this same Jesus who was taken up from you will also come again in the same manner as you have seen Him go.”